Advertising-sign device



(No Model.) 1

C. MORRISON.

ADVERTISING SIGN DEVICE.

'No.528, -256. Patented M M M i-MMM UNITED STATES WARREN O. MORRISON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. I

ADVERTISING-SIGN DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.'528,256, dated October 30,1894. Application filed Maroh 13, 1894. Serial No. 3,484:- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WARREN C. MORRISON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Advertising-Sign Devices, of which the following isa specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an advertising-sign device of a construction which shall particularly adapt it for use as a medium for itinerant street-advertising purposes by performing its function of attracting attention in a manner tending to startle.

To this end I provide a readily extensible and contractible sign-support in the form of a lazy-tongs carrying at one end a suitable sign and adapted to be conveniently carried bythe itinerant operator to enable him readily to shoot the sign suddenly upward-say twenty or thirty feet-by distending the lazy-tongs, and as readily and quickly to lower it.

Referring to the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 shows my improved device in all its details with the lazy-tongs partly distended toward displaying the sign in its elevated position; and Fig. 2 is a sectiontaken at the line 2 in Fig. 1 and viewed in the direction of the arrow, to represent the flexible construction of the sign and the manner of securing it, against collapsing or distortion, when in elevated position, by the wind.

A is a lazy-tongs of ordinary or any suitable construction, and shown as involving intermediate pairs of bars 4* crossed at their centers andpivoted together where they cross, the bars of the several pairs being also pivotally connected end to end; and to the ends of the last pair of the bars 1', at each end of the lazy-tongs, are pivoted the half-bars r, which are also pivotally connected at cc, at their meeting ends, where they reach to the longitudinal center of the lazy-tongs.

To the upper pivot a: I fasten, at its center, a bar 10 having a series of hooks 10 along its lower edge; and to the pivot w, directly below the upper pivot 00, I fasten, at its center, a similar bar q having a series of hooks q along its upper edge. These bars 1) and q afford a support for a sign B of canvas .or

which should conform, more or less, to the shape of the hands in gripping them. From the lowermost pivot a I also, by preference, suspend a stirrup a.

With the device secured about the waist of an itinerant carrier thereof, it may be conveniently actuated, by pressing upward on the handles 0, and, if desired, assisting the operation by downward pressure of the foot in the stirrup n, to suddenly distend the lazytongs and thereby raise, in a startling manner, the sign B to a high point of elevation, to which attention will be attracted by the operation. The sign may be easily held in its elevated position as long as desired, when,

by releasing the hold on the handles, the lazytongs will collapse by gravity (or it may be assisted by the operator) and lower the sign, the flexible structure of which adapts it to fold or collapse and thus avoid obstructing complete collapsion of the lazy-tongs.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A portable street advertising-sign device comprising in combination, a lazy-tongs provided with means for carrying it on the person of an itinerant bearer of the device, and an advertising sign supported on the lazytongs to be raised and lowered by distending and collapsing said lazy-tongs, substantially as described.

2. A portable street advertisingsign device.

comprising, in combination, a lazy-tongs carrying at one end an advertising-sign to be raised and lowered by distending and collapsing said lazy-tongs, a belt to which the lazy-tongs is fastened near its lower end and adapted to encircle the waist of an itinerant bearer of the device, and handles 0, in position conveniently accessible to the hands of said bearer, on the under sides of bars 7', substantially as described.

3. A portable street advertising-sign device comprising, in combination, a lazy-tongs A 5 carrying at one end an advertising sign B to be raised and lowered by distending and collapsing said lazy-tongs, a belt 0 to which the lazy-tongs is fastened near its lower end and adapted to encircle the Waist of an itinerant bearer of the device, handles 0, in position [0 conveniently accessible to the hands of said bearer, on the under sides of bars '1', and a stirrup n suspended from the lower end of the lazy-tongs, substantially as described.

WARREN O. MORRISON. In presence of M. J. FROST, W. N. WILLIAMS. 

